Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TheOakTree@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, it’s $31.07. You likely combined the 92 cents and 18 cents to a dollar instead of a dollar and 10 cents.

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  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yes. that is exactly what I did.

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• skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I got $31.07 here using a calculator. Perhaps you’ve uncovered a plot perpetrated by Big Calculator. (A joke.)

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  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I might be losing my perspecacity. I add the last two lines and my brain said 92 cents and 18 cents made a dollar rather than a dollar 10. it may seem dumb but thanks as it was messing with my brain. ugh I hate when I do stuff like that.

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    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey, it’s good to keep exercising the math muscle, and apparently making mistakes is a better learning reinforcement for us than always succeeding, so I bet it will stick better now.

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      • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        i wish but that type of shortcutty my brain took is unfortunately sorta a good and bad thing. It saw the 92 and 8 and just blew by it saying thats gonna be an even dollar so we can jump to the the others and figure out the cents and then add the dollars together. Im like 99% sure I would do the same in future unless I pull out paper (or just have a machine do it)

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